Social Justice Mixed Century Middle

Media Posters
Students will become art
School
activists to address and create artwork
based off of either their chosen 8th
grade community project or a similar
social justice issue. The students will
be shown artwork from different
artists that create art based on their
own community issues or service
projects. After the lesson students will
be able to look at their daily lives and
how they interact with the world Student teacher: Natalie Baumgartner
Assessment:
around them.
Cooperating teacher: Carlyon Hein
If students are able to form a sentence
answering questions and using these
sentence starters to answer the given
Students were required to utilize questions.
three different materials from a
chosen materials group in the final How did you use the mixed media
poster. materials in your poster? “In my project I
- Cut/Scrap/Recycled paper used...materials” “
- Oil pastels
What was your social issue? How did you
- Chalk Pastels
represent this issue? “My social issue
- Watercolor
was...I showed this by...”
- Recycled Acrylic paint
- Limited black Sharpie
- Magazines
Objectives:
-During the creation process, the
students will be able to connect
what their social issue is using
visual narratives in their posters to
represent their chosen social topic.
-After a short lecture about how the
artists Alejandro Duràn create
contemporary artwork regarding a
social issue the students will learn
how to visualize a social issue.
-After giving time to brainstorm
ideas for their social issue poster,
students will be able to explore with
different materials and discover
what mixed media they will use for
the final poster.
-During the end half, after the
students' final posters have been
created, students will be able to
explain their social issue to peers,
and how it relates and connects to
the world around them.
Understanding:
Students will take what they learn
from this lesson and reflect on how
they can create a visual poster for
their community project. The students
can/will reflect on how they can create
a visual poster expressing their
community project through the
creation of a poster in order to bring
awareness to their chosen topic.
Students will be able to see each
other's topics for their peers' projects,
and how they/others feel about
community issues.
Standards:
Standard 1. Observe and Learn to
Comprehend: 3. Practice critical and
analytical skills by using academic
language to discuss works of art and
visual culture.
Standard 3. Invent and Discover to
Create: 7. Allow imagination, curiosity,
and wonder to guide inquiry and
research.
Standard 2. Invision and Critique to
Reflect: 2. Connect ideas or concepts in
a work of art to their visual elements.
Standard 4. Relate and Connect to
Transfer: 10. Develop new knowledge by
actively doing and making (artistic
praxis) acknowledging relationships
between materials, objects, ideas, and
lived experience